Historical Instruments and Contemporary Endogenous Regressors

No 8716, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: We provide a simple framework for interpreting instrumental variable regressions when there is a gap in time between the impact of the instrument and the measurement of the endogenous variable, highlighting a particular violation of the exclusion restriction that can arise in this setting. In the presence of this violation, conventional IV regressions do not consistently estimate a structural parameter of interest. Building on our framework, we develop a simple empirical method to estimate the long-run effect of the endogenous variable. We use our bias correction method to examine the role of institutions in economic development, following Acemoglu et al. (2001). We find long-run coefficients that are smaller than the coefficients from the existing literature, demonstrating the quantitative importance of our framework.

Keywords: long-run economic development; instrumental variable regression (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C10 C30 O10 O40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ecm, nep-evo, nep-gro and nep-his
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